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Sunday, 24 September 2017

Good evening everyone and thanks for popping in. I hope you have had a lovely weekend and are now looking forwards to a good week ahead.

It has been another busy time in the Rice household, with workshops on Wednesday , looking after Elliot on Thursday and then up early on Friday and off upto Leyburn to set up ready for the Clarity Open day. The journey was quite traumatic with the motorway being closed so Sally Satnav took me through Leeds and Harrogate...I was so glad when I eventually arrived at the venue...

Friday was spent getting the room ready..

It all looked wonderful...

Then it was out for a meal...and what a yummy meal it was too,. The puddings were just amazing...

After a few hours sleep it was soon time to be up, showered, and off to the hall..simple you would think,..

But we had to drive through a field of cattle,,,and they decided to block the road...so who so you think got out if the car to move them...???

The big, matcho, male of the party...or the females...

Yes you guessed it...

Look you can just see Wendy and me...behind that Charolais bull...He was a handsome beast though....

And all this before 7am.... such fun...

Soon we were back in the car and on our way,

It is always great to see so many friends and to meet new ones, my table did start of neat,,,honestly

Mind you , it would never end up as messy as our Sams table,,.I was very good and lent her some stamps,,.and they actually came back clean,,,Thanks Sam

Some of my demos were using the petite leaf stencils

Some ghosting,

Some direct to stencil stamping

I love the water droplets on this one,

And the shading on this one,..

Thanks ladies for watching

And thanks Cheryl for the cake,..it was just what I needed

Everyone had a great time

Paul and Rosie looking for more cake,,,( or hiding from Barbara )

Well done to Audrey from Clarity Cumbria who won the first raffle prize , and then I do believe that Fiona from Clarity Glasgow won one too...

Soon it was time for everyone to say goodbye and make their way home.

Thank goodness that Sunday is my day off...

And an afternoon of cuddles with the little man did me the world of good.

Have a lovely week all...

Lots of do here, samples to make, and workshop prep to do as it is Anglesey next weekend...

Wednesday, 13 September 2017

It has been another busy few days making samples for the Clarity shows coming up next week. They are safely in the post so fingers crossed that they arrive.

Today I thought I would share a card with you that I made for the Hochanda shows with Rossella last week,

It features the new ribbon stamp...the Happy Birthday ..

And here is how it came about .

I started with a piece of stencil card and stamped the words...as this is such a large stamp I decided to use my stamp press. ( fantastic invention )

Next came the stencil, once in place I stamped the various word stamps using VersaMark ink, then used white embossing powder and heated it ....do remember to use an antistatic pad.

I seem to be using white embossing powder so much these days

The words now are a resist...so out with the inks..

Starting in the middle with yellow..

Then bringing in the colour from the outside.

And finally the orange ink, so that it blends with the other inks...this is a great quick way to blend .

Some black ink around the edge to add some depth...see the difference that it makes.

Some water spritzing

I drew a border with a fine liner pen and added some colour to the letters.

To finish off , yes I am using glossy Accents again....

They just dry so well...such a great look and some added interest...

A great card for a male or a female...hope you like it...

I have just been sorting out my bags out ready for tomorrow's trip up to Kendal,,.it is my monthly class at the Paper Mill Direct shop....Grosvenor House . I do love this day...one of my favourite places to visit...plus I get time with my Mum and Dad...

Although I am going to miss one of our regular ladies...Maggie has gone back to Spain for a few months...we will miss you tomorrow , lovely lady...

And finally a photo to make you smile...my little man is doing really well, feeding, sleeping and yes he was awake whilst we drove through Blackpool illuminations...

Monday, 4 September 2017

Good afternoon all, how is your week going? I have been busy making samples all day....and I don't know where the time has gone...just not enough hours in the day at the moment ,

Have you been watching Barbara and Paul today ? Paul still has one show to do, not sure if he will have anything left to demonstrate with...

I really love making book marks , and I made one using Tina's new plates from Yesterday .

That little Robin is just so cute....

He made an appearance on this sample too...It started out with the new snowflake plates....but he had to join in the fun.

Yesterday we had quite a journey back from Glasgow...the M6 was closed and we had to divert through Lancaster....it added over 2 hours to our journey ....thank goodness we had stopped at Tebay to exercise the dogs and have some food. The poor people on the North bound side ...some of them had over 3 hours delay...

It certainly gave our new motor home a good run. We picked it up on Friday morning and drove straight up to Glasgow...we found a wonderful campsite and Saturday's workshop went really well. Thanks to all the ladies for coming and Eileen for making such yummy cakes.

Some of the ladies are coming down to our Cumbria Retreat in October...oh I am so chuffed ...it sold out straight away and I have a waiting list... bless you all.

This is our new baby , and yes we updated it because of our little man....Elliot...we now have seat belts in the back so that we can take him away with us....oh ....so exciting times ahead....

Uncle Mikey came home last week so that he could have cuddles...

Elliot is doing so well and gets heavier everytime we see him...

Adam and Danielle are back home and enjoying being a family...They have taken Elliot up to Kendal today to see my parents...It is greatgrandad's birthday tomorrow...

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About Me

I have been crafting for many years with my main interest being card making and pyrography. I am a freelance designer and crafter who runs regular workshops and love to share ideas with fellow crafters. I am 52 years old, married and we have 2 grown up sons. My crafty companions are a 6 year old yellow labrador named Tess and Eric who is a Black Labrador and he is 10 months old...